# This one time, at band camp... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310 "2000-08-30T07:02:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![steeljaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@steeljaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steeljaw)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/1 "2000-08-30T07:02:25Z")
Finish the statement. Please. I know there are a lot of sick and twisted folks out there in SDMB land. So show us what you got. This one time, at band camp… ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/2 "2000-08-30T07:12:08Z")
This one time at band camp… I did the splits, then couldn’t get up. They had to tilt me to break the suction. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/3 "2001-06-01T00:38:00Z")
I keep seeing this catchphrase being inserted everywhere. As a non sequitur. What’s the deal with _“this one time at band camp…”_, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/4 "2001-06-01T01:00:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > \*\*What’s the deal with _“this one time at band camp…”_, anyway? \*\* Go rent the movie “American Pie.” One of the characters starts almost every story with that phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/5 "2001-06-01T01:05:33Z")
Go and rent _American Pie_, **Jomo**. I bears a passing resemblence to a teen flick, but is different in that it is actually funny. Obligatory on-topic comment: this one time, at band camp, one of the larger boys gave me a wedgie 'til the elastic band tore off. However, so strong was my glutius maximus, from years of bike-riding, that by flexing, the wedgie didn’t hurt in the slightest. By constantly taunting him throughout the ordeal, I insured no one else would pick on me the rest of camp. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/6 "2001-06-01T01:08:20Z")
You can see the girl who spoke the “band camp” line in this trailer for [American Pie 2](http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/american_pie_2.html). “And this other time, at band camp…” ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/7 "2001-06-01T01:09:31Z")
Alyson Hannigan. Mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/8 "2001-06-01T01:27:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andygirl \* > \*\*Alyson Hannigan. Mmmm. \*\* I concur. **Jomo Mojo** : What **Crunchy** said, but more to the point (although this may be considered a spoiler, so don’t read it if you want to find out for yourself): The character begins a lot of boring and geeky stories with, “this one time, at band camp…” but usually people insert the phrase to reference the last story where she says “this one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy.” ---
**Author:** ![Nicklz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicklz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicklz)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/9 "2001-06-01T01:56:25Z")
I snuck over to the girls bunks, and was used as a boy toy until the early hours of the morning. Or thats what I dreamed anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/10 "2001-06-01T02:00:36Z")
A-ha! Thanks, **Dr. Lao** , that explains why someone inserted it in the [Terminology for the female reproductive area, or, What do YOU like to call it?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70879) thread. It’s been a long time since Jomo went to any teen movie, unless you count _Dazed and Confused_ (I was class of '77, too). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-one-time-at-band-camp/31310/11 "2001-06-01T02:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Lao \* > \*\*boring and geeky stories \*\* I don’t know about everybody ELSE’S band camps, but ours included not only a large number of luscious young female instrumentalists, but the members of the flag team and majorette squad as well, who are by definition luscious. And the last time I attended high school band camp was, by coincidence, in the summer of 1977, so not only were we all bathed in a miasma of teenage lust, but a miasma of marijuana smoke as well. I’m shocked that we were able to walk in a straight LINE, let alone master routines while playing music. “After-breakfast bowl?” “Don’t mind iffen I do!”